Sunday, January 1 1995
Archer Prewitt, White Sky
Archer Prewitt gets around, man, like so many of his colleagues in the post-rock Chicago scene. Of course, you all know him from The Sea…
Poster Children: DDD
The last year has been the most prolific period of Poster Children’s long and illustrious career.
Pinback: Some Voices
With so many bands out there creating music, it’s incredibly simple for bands to slip under the radar of even the most attuned music fans.…
Jaco Pastorious: self-titled
Twenty-four years ago Jaco Pastorious released an eponymous debut that collectively positioned the mouths of the jazz world in a state of permanent slack-jawed awe.…
Pitchshifter: Deviant
It’s not often you find yourself trying to have a dialogue with an album as you’re listening to it. The songs don’t cooperate well. They…
Louis Prima: Wild, Cool ‘N Swingin’
There’s no sign of an end to Louis Prima mania, but just for the record, few are more deserving of the overdue appreciation. By now,…
Chichi Peralta: De Vuelta al Barrio
Chichi Peralta’s De Vuelta al Barrio is a very pleasant surprise from a record company in the Cayman Islands. Sr. Peralta is a talented musician…
Project K: Testing Underway
Project K’s Testing Underway is fun, but that’s about all it is. With sarcastic vocals and laid-back instrumentation, Project K sounds less like a band…
The Pretenders: Learning to Crawl
This review of one of the best albums of the ‘80s was originally written 22 March 1984. Those stars of stage, records, and rock videos,…
Primer 55: Introduction to Mayhem
This is the hardest band I’ve ever heard. From their press release: “I don’t know if you’ve ever been to downtown Memphis,” says guitarist Bobby…
Prolapse, Ghosts of Dead Aeroplanes
Prolapse’s post-punk, guitar noise rock is hypnotic, trance-inducing, and mind-blowing all at once.
Pushcar: Apartment D
I believe the term “concept album” is bandied about so often because the album itself is rarely better than the concept. Pushcar’s Apartment D fits…
Phil Perry: My Book of Love
In 1986 with release of his fifth recording, Give Me the Reason, Luther Vandross finally achieved some semblance of the cross-over success that had alluded…
The Promise Ring: Electric Pink EP
There’s nothing I find more annoying than the attitude of a pompous, know-it-all music critic. You know, the kind that seems to completely bully one…
The Pilfers: Chawalaleng
Definitely at the forefront of the esteemed “Band That Should Be in a Sprite Commercial” race, the Pilfers combine all of the sudsy aspects of…
Podstar: self-titled
Silverchair my ass! Here’s a real ray of hope for youth! Podstar is a four piece PPP (punky power pop) band with some chops and…
Plastiscene, Seeing Stars
Britpop may have passed from favor in the U.K., but now there’s a spate of American bands following in the footsteps of the Oasises and…
Pat McGee Band: Shine
Imagine Pat Metheny meets Robert Earl Keen. Then make that combination really toe-tappingly happy. Maybe a more apt description of the Pat McGee Band would…
Pele: Elephant
Imagine for a moment that you spent most of 1999 trying to get your mind around the slippery concept of “post-rock”. Picture yourself shuffling bewilderedly…
Kelly Price: Mirror, Mirror
Even before the buzz surrounding Kelly Price’s debut The Soul of a Woman subsided, it was apparent that she would fall victim to the recording…
